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Charity, selflessness, altruism and entrepreneurship are, therefore, not contradictory. It is well-known that the well-paid traditional nurse is likely to be a better worker better able to devote more attention to her patient (Hardin & . Kaplow, 2001). Deductively, therefore, the independent nurse who is motivated to work well in order to be successfully self-employed would likely (although not necessarily) be a better nurse in terms of the intrinsic nursing characteristics than those employed by institutions.
Ironically, entrepreneur nursing can potentially make one into a better nurse, for aside from being motivated to perform excellently, the entrepreneur nurse can adopt her own style and afford to conduct thorough research into nursing theories and models that culminate in enhanced nursing.
The institutional nurse is classically overworked and, therefore, has little time for arbitrary activities; the entrepreneur nurse, on the other hand, can adequately fulfill the expectations of evidence-based nursing where she has optimum time to conduct research, test it, and implement it.
The entrepreneur nurse can also choose to volunteer if she so wishes -- an option, give the time constrains of the regular nurse that is generally closed to the regular nurse. Moreover, choosing her patients and being less strained, the entrepreneur nurse can also potentially...
Already, some nursing institutions such as the University of Rochester have opened schools to teach nursing entrepreneurship, and although condemned by some for being mercenary, nursing entrepreneurs can actually be as, if not more, selfless, other-oriented, and altruistic as traditional nursing is.
Self-employed, and choosing to involve themselves sin product or service, nursing entrepreneur has its offers various perks including flexibility and the ability to go one's own way as well as to choose one's employers and to decide how to use one's time. All of this can potentially make one into a better nurse since one has greater motivation and time as well as energy for pursuing nurse-related research and for bettering one's services.
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